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The Fair Credit Reporting Act protects the accuracy and privacy of the information in your credit file.

Credit card debt grew moderately in September, as gas prices continued to decline. While inflation remained an issue impacting consumers, rising 8.2 percent over the year for September, gas prices were down 4.9 percent from August. This follows August’s month-over-month 10.6 percent downslide in gas prices.

In light of recent data breaches, many of us are wondering what we need to do to protect ourselves from hackers and scammers. A cybersecurity expert offers some simple steps.

After failing to get clear advice from Optus and in trying to protect her finances, Anna may now not be able to own her own home anytime soon.

Experts suggest using credit reporting bodies, checking credit score and placing credit ban to increase security

Citing the impact of decades-high inflation on consumers' wallets, the nation's biggest credit reporting agencies — Experian, Equifax and TransUnion — agreed to continue to offer free weekly credit reports through the end of next year.

The good news it some victims of the Optus hack can get cheap or free licence replacements. The bad news is the days of ‘cheaper’ petrol are over — the fuel excise reduction ends at 11.59pm today so Australians will pay at least 22 cents a litre more to keep…

Optus is offering customers ‘most affected’ by last week’s data breach a free subscription to credit-monitoring company Equifax Protect. That name should ring a bell.

With details of current and former customers stolen from the Optus database, plenty of questions remain. What can you do to protect against the threats caused by this data breach?